Example sentences of "to be married " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of this has to do with Veronica Lake 's deep , husky voice : a smoky spirit whose name and form collectively conjured up a feminine aura of water , vapour , air , smoke and flesh at the same time ; a floating dreamboat that any boy of six would be proud to be married to . |
| 2 | ‘ When do you want to be married then ? ’ |
| 3 | When I told him that if we were to be married I would n't ask my father for a penny he … well , he threw me out . ’ |
| 4 | Dereham had in fact considered that he and Catherine were engaged to be married , and this , if revealed at the time , would have invalidated the royal marriage . |
| 5 | There were pictures in one of Gloria 's magazines of the decorated carriage Pulled by plumed horses that Her Majesty had travelled in before she became Her Majesty the Queen , when she was still just a Lady , on her way to be married . |
| 6 | I mean like royalty do , pretend to be married but do their own thing on the quiet . |
| 7 | Lord Chatwin and I are going to be married . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Ought to be married and at home , but nobody wants her , I suppose , ’ jeered the overseer . |
| 9 | All the men in the University seemed to be married or gay or scientists , and Robyn had no time or energy to look further afield . |
| 10 | Men are less likely in future to spend old age with their spouse , while women are more likely to be married . |
| 11 | The point is , he 's engaged to be married . |
| 12 | They do n't want to risk a break-up — perhaps for the sake of the children , or because it suits them to be married for other reasons . |
| 13 | I 'm due to be married next Easter , and my fiancé has just told me he likes dressing up in women 's clothes . |
| 14 | He took his hand from her arm and , his eyes narrowing , he said , ‘ Do you want to be married ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Do you want me to be married ? ’ |
| 16 | I 'm going to be married . ’ |
| 17 | The figures also demonstrate how well matched are the action and control samples : that in both places they were well matched on age , proportion with an involved relative/ friend , proportion in owner-occupied housing , and on OBS score ; they were less well matched on gender and on proportion without an inside lavatory ( though the difference was not great ) , and least well matched on marital status and on proportion living alone , with the Ipswich control sample and the Newham action sample being more likely to be married and ( therefore ) not living alone . |
| 18 | Then , when they were sixteen and eighteen respectively , they told us they wanted to be married . |
| 19 | ‘ He was a student at the university : they were to be married until she decided a career on the stage suited her better than becoming the wife of a Hapsburg cavalry officer . |
| 20 | ‘ Say a prayer for us ’ I asked , ‘ I really would like to be married , but I would also like HMS Western to put up a decent show . ’ |
| 21 | First to be christened , second to be married and third to be buried . |
| 22 | I speak from the heart here , as it so happens that my sister is to be married this month and my mother is trying her hardest to organise the wedding that we ( never mind my sister and fiancé , these things are family affairs ) , want . |
| 23 | ( Elisabeth Micheler and Melvyn Jones are engaged to be married , both winners at this slalom . |
| 24 | For God 's sake , Vi , we were going to be married . |
| 25 | What better proof of heterosexuality than to be married ? |
| 26 | We mentioned earlier in this chapter that some people feel uncomfortable or trapped by the public contract of marriage , yet still allow themselves to be married . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm going to be married , Edouard , did I tell you ? |
| 28 | I could n't bear to be married if I had n't … ‘ |
| 29 | The parish registers begin in 1546 and contain among the memoranda reference to a large gold ring with the inscription ‘ Obey and Rule ’ which was given to the church by a Mrs Francis Rokeby on 26th August 1711 for the use , of any who came to the church to be married and were ‘ unprovided with a ring ’ . |
| 30 | Although the girl 's sister Christie was now engaged to be married and their Uncle Nathan in Leeds had tried to persuade Sarah to take over as his housekeeper , Sarah had dug in her heels and refused the invitation . |